The best trombone ballad you've ever heard

[tbdana]

What is the best trombone ballad you've ever heard?

Please post a link to a sound or video file, so we can all listen.

[Slydeguy]

A favorite: Frank Rosolino “Violets”

[tbdana]

Oh, that's a GREAT one! Thank you.

My favorite ballad of Frank's is I Just Don't Want To Run Around Anymore. So much soul, so much anguish, so urgent. Even the note he airballs adds to the angst. This one just slays me.

[Nolankberk]

Nothing beats a nice melody with strings

[Nolankberk]

This one too!

[GGJazz]

Hi all .

Here two among my favourites:

J. J. Johnson "My Old Flame" ( 1958)


Jack Jenney "Stardust" (1939)


Again , after so many years of listening , I love they madly ..!

Regards
Giancarlo

[EriKon]

I really like both of those Rosolino ballads mentioned above. Also some great Stardust recordings out there. But I think my favorite is this one, played by Watrous.

[harrisonreed]

Not exactly a ballad. But .... Pretty much a really long ballad. This piece always intrigues me. Good luck getting the score though...

I wish I could hear this one played by someone with Frank's approach he took in Violets.

[harrisonreed]

Again, not a jazz Ballad. But ballad playing by a really young player:

[jej]

Dick Nash, "My One and Only Love"

[AndrewMeronek]

I don't really have a "best" ballad but thinking about this question, I did some thinking of a potential trombonist who is in my list of favorite ballad players, and then I did some sleuthing and found this gem:

[harrisonreed]

I don't really have a "best" ballad but thinking about this question, I did some thinking of a potential trombonist who is in my list of favorite ballad players, and then I did some sleuthing and found this gem:

For all the players who keep thinking ribbon mics are the only way to go, listen to that U87 (or possibly M269). That recording sounds awesome.

[KWL]

The most influential for me was Dick Nash playing "Joanna" in the Henry Mancini album "More Music from Peter Gunn" my sister brought home when I was about thirteen years old. I still have that album. According to the liner notes it was recorded on February 17, and March 5 and 6, 1959.